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Today I noticed a huge wall of spam from UniversalMonk from 2 different accounts and didn't initially think much of it and blocked their communities but more spam came from different communities.

At this point I checked and saw that they had created several communities which then led me down the rabbit hole to discover that their posts had almost entirely covered the new posts page of both sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee. Later on I discovered that they're posting right-wing propaganda and misinformation from breitbart, foxnews you name it.


He's already caused and stirred shit 2 months ago and clearly I can see why now.

At this point it's difficult to believe that UniversalMonk will learn proper netiquette in: not post spamming, being considerate to others, and not sharing right-wing extremist content that no one wants.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

100% if he is breaking the ToS on multiple instances (and I would argue that spamming most likely is, not to mention the substance of the content)

He can always create his own instance and anyone who wants to see his content can join it as well. Instance admins shouldn’t feel obligated to give anyone a platform (ahem, .world), the fediverse is decentralized and democratic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Forgot about that guy. They have the honor of being my first ever block.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How long have you been here? a day without a block is a day I probably wasn't online for long.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've never blocked anyone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

while there's plenty of people on my list too I'd say the majority are just foreign language communities.

Blocking shit you don't want to interact with is significantly easier than finding stuff you do, and makes the internet a much nicer place.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I've got an empty block list. The most I do is add a tag if I'm browsing on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'm in the center. But as long as it's not illegal, then it's OK.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

OK so you think every lemm.ee user is a nazi or something?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

No but only few of them. I didnt see its users commenting getting mad everytime they see some news posts against the cons

And "NaziParty" did get almost all of their posts downvoted

I also see the communities with the same name in http://sh.itjust.works/ and http://lemmy.world/, all with the same users and downvotes

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